Negotiating a solution to the conflict between Morocco and Western Sahara faces many obstacles, reports Jacob Mundy of Foreign Policy in Focus. An increasing sense of nationalism among Western Sahara’s native Sawahri, for instance, stands in direct opposition to US’s nearly unconditional support of Morocco as an ally in the ‘War on Terror’. While autonomy for Western
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Western media characterizations of Russia as an authoritarian or even totalitarian state are untrue, argues Anna Arutunyan. The Moscow News editor sets out two reasons why Putin’s Russia defies Western perceptions: first, the reestablishment of authoritarian rule in Russia is a simplification on the part of Western journalists, who draw much of their information from oppositional sources.
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